The European Union and its Periphery: Inclusion and Exclusion

Haynes, Mike

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“…(These include Greece, Portugal, and Spain in the 1990s and ten Central and East European countries as of 1 May 2004.) As numerous scholars have demonstrated, this vast augmentation of regional unevenness increases the opportunities for both the exploitation of labor and the disciplining of member states vis-a© -vis the flows of capital through foreign direct investment (Agnew, 2001;Dunford, 1994;Gough, 2004;Haynes, 2001). It effectively depresses wages and eventually will place huge and increasingly impossible demands on the already-strained welfare systems of existing member states in areas as diverse as health, housing, and education.…”

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Neoliberal Governmentality in the European Union: Education, Training, and Technologies of Citizenship

Mitchell

2006

Environ Plan D

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In this paper I argue that increasingly neoliberal forms of governmentality are evident in the educational sector of the European Commission. This is especially the case vis-α-vis the institutional philosophy of how immigrants and second-generation ‘minorities’ should be best integrated into European society. Both the policies and the programs associated with education and training are becoming more oriented towards the formation of mobile, flexible, and self-governing European laborers and less oriented towards an institutionalized affirmation of personal development and individual or group ‘difference’. This represents a fairly substantive philosophical and practical transformation over the past five to ten years, with significant implications for conceptions of European citizenship, multiculturalism, and social belonging.

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Neoliberal Governmentality in the European Union: Education, Training, and Technologies of Citizenship

Mitchell

2006

Environ Plan D

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“…What is revealing, however, is its internal distribution: 'of the $15 billion foreign investment which Hungary has received since 1990, about 75 per cent has gone to Budapest and the Western counties, according to Ministry of Trade statistics. Only an estimated one per cent of this capital went to each of the four counties of Eastern Hungary' (Haynes, 1998). This is an extreme case but it reflects a wider problem and suggests that regional divergence is likely to be more marked in the future than in the more recent past.…”

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“…But the structures of inequality established by the earlier growth spurt in Western Europe proved remarkably tenacious. In particular it was not just a question of a widened gap between national economies but the fact that both within and between economies, capitalist industrialisation was uneven -national economic development was based on 'uneven and combined development' in the sense that modern and less modern forms lived alongside each other, indeed fed off and reproduced one another, as to a large extent they continue to do so today albeit now at much higher levels of development (Haynes, 1998).…”

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“…For some periods and for some countries there is evidence of this -especially in the years of the 'golden age' of the world economy in the 1950s and 1960s. But the long term record suggests that this convergence is far from universal and that it is difficult to sustain (Ambramovitz, 1986;Baumol 1986;Maddison, 1982Maddison, , 1989Maddison, , 1995aMaddison, , 1995bHaynes, 1998). In particular there appears to be a relationship between component 3 and component 2.…”

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Whether by Visible or Invisible Hand: The Intractable Problem of Russian and East European Catch up

Haynes

Husan

2002

Competition & Change

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Can a strong convergence process be set in motion which will give hope that transition countries begin to catch up with the Western world? The collapse of Soviet control in Eastern Europe in 1989, and the subsequent disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, led everywhere to a re-evaluation of the past and a more optimistic appreciation of the pre-1945 potential of this part of the European economy. Specifically, what has been suggested is that before 1945 the countries of Central and Eastern Europe were already well into the process of modern economic growth and towards convergence with the advanced West, and that the subsequent imposition of centralised planning did long term harm to the region's prospects. Envious comparisons have been made with near neighbours such as Austria or more distant examples such as Spain and Italy. This historical revisionism has been used to support the view that, once they were freed from state control in the 1990s, these new market economies would have bright prospects. Nowhere, however, have these high hopes been borne out. This paper argues that a precondition for the explanation of this failure has to be a recognition that this optimistic view of the past is false, and that these economies have been and continue to be the victims of much longer run inequalities in the world economy.

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'Somewhere Over the Rainbow': The Post-Soviet Transition, the Market and the Mythical Process of Convergence

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Husan²

2002

Post-Communist Economies

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At the core of thinking about the post-communist transition has been the goal of convergence with the advanced West. This article accepts the legitimacy of this goal but argues that the prospects for its achievement are not good. Neo-classical theorists have misled and continue to mislead policy makers about the ease with which the goal can be achieved and the necessary conditions. The global pattern of growth and development suggests that 'convergence' is not a general characteristic of the world economy. A realistic appraisal of the potential in the transition bloc has therefore to address both regional problems and the overall pattern of global inequality.

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The European Union and its Periphery: Inclusion and Exclusion

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Neoliberal Governmentality in the European Union: Education, Training, and Technologies of Citizenship

Neoliberal Governmentality in the European Union: Education, Training, and Technologies of Citizenship

Whether by Visible or Invisible Hand: The Intractable Problem of Russian and East European Catch up

'Somewhere Over the Rainbow': The Post-Soviet Transition, the Market and the Mythical Process of Convergence

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